Understanding VR file formats

- Well, cameras like the Ricoh Theta…provide really impressive VR specific technology,…this whole process is heavily dependent…on post production processing.…After all, we're effectively shooting…with multiple cameras, multiple separate cameras,…to get their output all stitched together…into a usable finished VR movie,…requires a good amount of computation.…Where most people seem to get confused…is in understanding what comes out of the camera…and what needs to happen to it.…We're going to look at the three different steps…that go into producing a finished VR movie.…

Now, I'm using the Theta as my example,…but the stages that I'm showing you…are going to be true of any VR rig that you use.…There might just be a scaling up and down…depending on how many cameras you're using.…The Theta is really just two cameras,…and you can see them right here.…There's a camera on this side pointing this way,…and one on this side pointing that way.…Each one is a 180 degree camera,…so between the two of them, you get 360 degrees,…

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Virtual reality can transport you across town or around the world. And it's easy and inexpensive to test the (virtual) waters—not only as someone who views VR content but also creates it.

In this course, photographer, educator, and author Ben Long introduces the essential concepts and tools behind photographic- and video-based VR. After detailing a brief history of VR, Ben shows a sampling of inexpensive VR viewers (such as VR apps and VR goggles for your smartphone) and where to go to check out great VR content. He also reviews the tools and techniques for creating your own VR photos and videos, and dealing with challenges in post-production, such as moving media to the computer, stitching and mapping 360-degree images and video, playing back VR video, and sharing VR content online.